Comments for Richard Layzell Blog

Comment on Nonchalant revelation by Kathryn Edwards

Kathryn Edwards — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:03:14 +0000

Goose-pimples, honestly.
Have to confess a certain sadness that your time there is ending.
But, ah: what ripples your visit will have made!

Comment on Further trans-actions by Kathryn Edwards

Kathryn Edwards — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:08:32 +0000

Dear Richard and all,

I agree with Chris’s speculation that the conversations must have been rich. And yet I love the visual presentations, too: those clumping bulbs on the ground, each a little universe . . . those fish-in-bowls on the bridge parapet . . . yumtious!

Here in London it’s frosty and cold. Bulletins of Shanghai strangeness are, as always, very welcome.

Comment on Further trans-actions by Chris Seeley

Chris Seeley — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:08:03 +0000

Hi Richard – and greetings from the Italian Alpini where is has snowed all day long today. Its the shift from showing, offering the bulbs to really offering them – please take one – that I like so much. And not because of the giving of the bulbs in and of itself as the conversations that it must have triggered. Lovely. Thank you.

Comment on Famous station by Kathryn Edwards

Kathryn Edwards — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:13:13 +0000

What marvellous snippets of strangeness you are laying out for us! And how wonderfully airy is that station concourse!

Even T seems mellow in this environment.

Comment on Urban jungle takes hold by Chris Seeley

Chris Seeley — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:53:19 +0000

That local bamboo drawing is delicious… you’re up to far more than the blog reveals. Inscrutable.

Comment on Overcast Saturday late afternoon by jennet thomas

jennet thomas — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:43:31 +0000

what a lovely bird, what is it?

Comment on Red is an old-fashioned colour by Kathryn Edwards

Kathryn Edwards — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:43:12 +0000

Aah, thank you! Have read this several times today, enjoying it as a rich soundtrack somehow more vivid than a visual image.

Meanwhile, London’s British Library is advertising a lunchtime event entitled ‘Sounds like winter’:

‘December means different things to different people. Chanukah, Eid ul-Adha, the Nativity, Winter Solstice, Yuletide, rutting stags, pantomime and busy shops are just some of the memories evoked by the mere mention of that time of year which means so much to so many. Drawing from the extensive sound collections of the British Library Sound Archive, enjoy lively discussion – and hear – what this seasonal time of year brings, through radio, music, wildlife sounds, spoken word recordings and more.’

How to understand or interpret a place or culture? Your Wei Yingwu poem is an up-to-the-minute account of a stroll on Hampstead Heath, and yet I have no idea what slice of the diversity of life is in yesterday’s glass jar . . .

Comment on The lessons of the chance encounter by Chris Seeley

Chris Seeley — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:57:47 +0000

This post has a different feel – ah! contact at last… I felt a frisson of something starting when I read this one – the stick, the women, the toilet. It made a different kind of sense to me. I wonder what the language women might make of what you have been noticing so far?

Comment on Increase by Kathryn Edwards

Kathryn Edwards — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:04:37 +0000

Isn’t this one of the difficulties of life: how to know what we know?

How to live/implement it, espousing congruence? Where are the accessible sources of wisdom and guidance for achieving this? What is the benchmark for Right Living?

I am attracted to Joanna Macy’s proposal that the Great Turning comes from humans’ empathetic and compassionate embrace of fear and anxiety, one’s own and others’, leading to a creative state in the heartmind.

Comment on Shilong Road at night by lynne d jones

lynne d jones — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:39:48 +0000

This is a bizarre picture, I like it!